Remember last time you went over a traffic light that had just turned bright red after being a bit too long in dark orange?
Or when you went 35 in a 30 zone?
Or the time you turned the air around you blue over that asshat who cut you off? Or when you cut somebody off?
I ́ll take a wager that most of us have driven in a way we would like to hide if we had known about it:
I'm pretty sure that bike cams do not have radar speed measuring inbuilt.
For me, a car forcing a bike off the road is a little bit more serious as far as safety is concerned than a bit of swearing.
I'll wager that too. The camera footage is used to prosecute dangerous driving which is actually affecting other less protected road users at the time of recording and nothing else.
Just musing along to the tune of my inner drumbeat…
But a fact is we all do things that we shouldn ́t, even cyclists, even pedestrians. Ever walked over a crossing when there are no cars a-coming but the little man was red?
The question is: “Do we really want our cars to record these things?” There was a discussion a while back on wether cars should have a black box recording everything the car is doing, the insurance companies were pushing for it, the authorities wanted it and lawyers were having the time of their lives trying to get such gained data admissible in court.
It never happened, mainly due to strict the data protection laws in the EU.
As for Tesla, the jury is still out if these cars actually constitute a breach of privacy laws and if they should be allowed to be sold in the EU.
The European court of justice recently blocked “safe harbor” and the update “data shield” which rules the transfer of personal data to unsafe countries like the US.
Indeed China has forbidden their functionaries to drive Teslas due to the fact that they record and when a country like China calls foul over data protection…!
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You quoted my post about uploading cycle-cam video and so I replied to that.
I think you misunderstand me.
The Police in the UK are prosecuting drivers for dangerous and reckless driving that has affected others. For lack of consideration to less-protected road users.
Your example hardly qualifies for that, does it?
in the end I think it is best if you look at your car the same way you regard your smartphone and understand both cellphone and car have the capability and are constantly transmitting similar or even the same data to any third party who is interested in buying such data.
You can by now get apps for your car just like you can for your phone but remember; if any software is free then you are the product.
You never can tell on the internet.
Feminine form of the adjective: Je suis désolée
If you used an online translator and the feminine form of the adjective was the output, you're welcome to keep worrying about big companies and your data.
My Mercedes has a bunch of cameras for a full surround view and an Augmented Reality guidance system via GPS as well, but I don't have a Sentry-like capability that I know of.
It activates the camera (I can see it in dash) in some situations such as when approaching red lights at a complex intersection. Makes me think it does this to survey the surroundings and activate self-protective measures in case I don't slow down quick enough or there's another danger lurking. I guess this could lead to the car having a recording capability if the manufacturer truly wanted to add/activate one in a future release...
I wonder what would happen to your cars... say, for want of an item, navigation software if the subscription runs out?
Or could your car be disabled if the insurance goes up and you havn ́t paid, or could the police stop your car at their leisure?
Whatever the future will bring, cars as we have known them for the last hundred and thirty six years know will cease to exist and in a few years time we will only see so-called "smart cars" on the road.
I wonder we will see a resurgence in the value of dumb cars? Already you cant get my first car, a Ford Capri, for under 20 grand.